[ale] Added an IDE CD-ROM Drive

[Dave Brooks]

"you" or any variation of "you" is directed at Ben, not Jerry. :)



>'dmesg' to find if CDROM is there.
>
>on RH5+, it could be either /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd, well, if I recall right.
>/dev/cdrom is just a symLink.


erm... the device name is universal whether you're running RH, debian,
slackware, or any other distribution you would like to conjure up.  It
depends where the device is physically sitting.

First IDE, first device: /dev/hda
First IDE, second device: /dev/hdb
Second IDE, first device: /dev/hdc
Second IDE, second device: /dev/hdd

>
>If you are using AfterStep window manager like I do, you need to click on
>'reject/stop' button on the ASCD on the wharf before you click on the
>physical release button. Otherwise, it will claim it is using the
>cd, audio or digital.
>


huh?  a 'umount /dev/cdrom' should work, assuming /dev/cdrom is a symlink to
your cdrom device.

>If you suspect it is mounted as part of the file system, do a 'df -k' to
>find if there is an entry with iso9660 or isofs. That entry should also
>have 100% capacity. If it is there, do a 'cd / && umount /mnt/cdrom' or
>whatever the second field is. 'cd /' part is just to make sure you are not
>in the /mnt/cdrom.
>


...Your system may have a line in /etc/fstab telling the machine to
automagically mount the device on boot.  If the door to the drive wont
_ever_ open, like right after you turn your computer on and it's going
through the RAM check, then that's a problem with the drive itself.  Get it
repaired or buy another one.


>well, good luck.
>
> Jerry Yu
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>On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Moe wrote:
>
>> Hey Ben,
>>     If you say that the cdrom door wont open then sounds like it might
>> be mounted on the filesystem. Is there any cd inside. Look for mnt
>> from root partition then "cd mnt" then check to see if a directory
>> called cdrom exists, if it does then "cd cdrom" and you should see the
>> stuff on the cd.
>>
>> Lastly, as root do "fdisk -l" then you should see a partition table
>> showing your hdd connected to linux and the  cdrom if linux see's it.
>>
>> Let me know what happens either way,
>> Moe
>>
>> Ben Phillips <pynk at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Wed, 16 Dec 1998 jeff_hubbs at mcgraw-hill.com wrote:
>> >
>> > > Then I added a cheapie PCI-bus single-channel IDE card that had
>> come with
>> > > the machine initially (and I know once worked under RH 5.1) and
>> connected
>> > > it to an IDE CD-ROM drive that once worked with that very same IDE
>> card.
>> >
>> > What are you running now?  Slackware makes a directory called /cdrom
>> (off of
>> > the root directory).  It could be you don't have kernel support.
>> >
>> > >  Oh, by the way, FWIW, the door
>> > > won't open (and I really think I plugged the power connector in!).
>> >
>> > That's kinda scary, and unless your CD-ROM is a weird one that needs
>> > software permission to open (the likes of which I've never seen),
>> then it
>> > really could be a hardware issue.
>> >
>> >                       __   _
>> > Ben Phillips         /  '_' )         ,,,    "If it's a hobby for us
>> and a
>> > pynk at cc.gatech.edu   |  | ()|||||||||[:::)   job for you, then why
>> are you
>> >                      \__.-._)         '''    doing such a shoddy job?"
>> >                               -- Linus Torvalds to Microsoft
>> >
>> >
>> >
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